Liberal ghetto

Forced to return to politics, Boris Nemtsov recently joked on the air of the Echo of Moscow, when the listener gave him a definition of a “weak politician”: “It’s funny when girls say about my weakness.”

Coquetness has become a distinctive feature of our democrats. They are expected from a clear alternative agenda, and they talk about successes or, depending on the mood, the difficulties of the unifying process on the right flank. With hard comments regarding the key and turning points of the country's policies, only notebook political scientists or the West act. Is it worth it to be surprised that, more recently, the only substantial opponent of power was a prisoner until he was cut off from the external world for this (and, by the way, even in this case, when Mikhail Khodorkovsky was deprived of the right to exchange information, opposition politicians managed to maintain diplomatic silence and prudent inaction, while not noticing the free zone around them).

If the complexly built liberal verbal constructions arise, there is no main thing behind them - actually political action

Moreover, if difficultly built liberal verbal constructions arise, there is no main thing behind them - actually political action. And therefore, against the backdrop of Brezhnev’s information gastard, journalists are forced to exaggerate one news - so still the “man” or not “man” former adviser to the president for economic issues Andrei Illarionov. It turned out that it was not a “man”, because even the very fact of a proposal to enter the movement emanating from one of the associates of Kasyanov - Ivan Starikov began to deny.

Democrats themselves simplify the political field. The authorities put forward populist national projects, and forms civil society by virtue of its worldview. But neither the doctor of economic sciences Grigory Yavlinsky, nor once the youngest vice-governor of the country, and now the party leader Nikita Belykh, is still there are no answers to any of the questions that are of interest to the people: in the field of healthcare, education, in affordable housing and agriculture. And the only substantial opinion regarding the national projects I heard not from politicians, but from an ordinary doctor: “The authorities increase salaries only by district police officers, because specialists will be able to live on bribes of patients.” Is this not an expert assessment of Russian corruption?

Now, surrounded by Mikhail Kasyanov, they are racking their heads, how to "get him out of the liberal ghetto." "How to get out of this negotiation democratic party, which ends with a doll faction in the State Duma?" - the ally of the ex-Prime Minister argues. The other day we came up with a certain meeting on Russian problems in 2008 and after. Perhaps they will create a fund or movement. The main thing, as I understand, is not ideological. Timely, by the way. Since adherents of democratic ideology, according to various surveys, are less and less in the country. From the study by VTsIOM, for example, it follows that a quarter of the respondents advocates for returning to a one -party system. And this is a great merit of the Democrats.

01/24/2006 The material was published in the "newspaper" No. 10 of 01.25.2006.